Football and Music

A Song For England: Round 3

- VOTE NOW - Voting has closed for Round 2 and the winner is.... Blind Granny's Taxi Nightmare By a large margin: 62% of the votes. Incidentally if you are wondering where and how they got that name - it was a headline that one of them spotted in the Worcester News. - A recap of their song before I announce who they are up again

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Tags: England, WorldCup, WorldCup2010

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Desolation Street

INT: ROVERS RETURN WIDE SHOT - LOOKING TOWARDS THE DOOR. BET IS BEHIND THE BAR. D.Becks on crutches bundles himself through the door looking upset. BETTY: "Oh hey up lovvy. Wharrhavyadone ?" DAVEY: "I pulled me leg. Now I can't play anymore." BETTY: "Ah thatsashame luve...I'll put a hotpot on foryer..that'll mekitbetter." BACK

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Tags: AC_Milan, England, Hull

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Stewpot’s Junior Choice

This one requires some set up first before we get to the tunes because I realise that there will be a few of you out there who might not actually recognise or remember the big nosed bloke below: In the late 70's Radio One used to play what Radio Two plays now. At the time it was all mainstream, safe middle of the road music, no risks taken.

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Tags: England, Spurs

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A Song For England: Round 2

UPDATE: Round 2 voting closed - Round 3 here. The poll has closed for the 1st round and the winner is... -+ The Shining Hour +- He will now go up against our next contenders... Blind Granny's Taxi Nightmare These chaps have previous with an England World Cup song having previously released a previous version (have I said previous

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An Old To Mexico (86)

So the first question is then: How come Mexico got it again only 16 years later ? It was because Colombia - the country who were originally chosen to host it, just at the wrong moment went skint. FIFA then placed an urgent advert in the Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle asking if anybody could accomodate them and their friends for a couple of

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Tags: England, WorldCup, WorldCup86

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A Song For England: Round 1

So here we go then... UPDATE: The poll has closed and the winner of Round 1 is... As you are well aware by now there will be no official song for England leading up to the World Cup. This is obviously bad news for the listening public as there's obviously going to be a deluge of songs that will attempt to fill this void. Since there's n

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Tags: England, WorldCup, WorldCup2010

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